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Despite the poor year Orkney farmers have had, they have still been doing their bit to help raise awareness of breast cancer. Here is Scott Sclater out wrapping bales in the campaign's striking pink plastic for S and J Sclater, at Lower Hobbister in Stenness

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NEW RULES limiting the purchase and use of professional rodenticide bait to control rats and mice will come into force next year - but farmers will be able to use their farm assurance scheme membership as proof of competence until at least the end of 2017.

Robbie Lennox, a well-known sheep farmer, councillor, company director and long-serving Church of Scotland elder whose fund-raising skills helped to save one of Scotland's most famous 'wedding churches' on the Banks of Loch Lomond, has died, aged 90.

George LACKIE Skea, who was a familiar figure in the diverse fields of farming, Scottish Country Dancing, funeral undertaking and buying and breeding Clydesdale horses, has died peacefully at his home in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, aged 94.